
Centre for Death and Life Studies
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Centre for Death and Life Studies
@DurhamCDALS
The Centre for Death and Life Studies (CDALS) exists to foster and conduct research into life-values, beliefs, and practices that relate to living and dying.


The 2025 ASDS Lifetime Achievement Award is conferred upon Professor Douglas Davies FBA, of Durham University, for outstanding contributions to Death Studies over the course of his career. @durham_uni #ddd17






@durham_uni's Centre for Death & Life Studies invites submissions for 10-min papers on the topic of closure. These can be conceptual, practice-based experiences, or work-in-progress. To apply, please send a 200-word outline by 12pm on 24/1/25 to georgina.m.robinson@durham.ac.uk✍️



I captured a flavour of my erstwhile PhD supervisor Douglas Davies’ astonishing fifty year career in this interview for @Mortality_TandF - I hope it captures his warmth, wandering and wondering doi.org/10.1080/135762…














We’ve just started today’s briefing looking at #Cremation after #Covid with new report authors Rev Prof Douglas Davies & Dr @theologee_ of @durhamcdlas, Alan Jose and Julie Dunk of ICCM.


